Coronavirus is sweeping the globe.

And so live from the self-quarantine studios, this is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

I'm Michael Knowles.

And Senator, I have to ask, is somebody who spent a lot of time with

you at CPAC. How are you feeling? You know, I'm feeling great. Thank you for asking. How are you

feeling, Michael? Well, I'm feeling good and I'm feeling better now that I know that it would appear

that you have not suffered any consequences as a result of exposure to

coronavirus. Well, I think that's right. But let me tell you what happened and how it came for

me to be alone in my living room right now. Saturday night, so three days ago, I got a call

from the organizers of CPAC. And they called and said at CPAC, there was an

individual who had since gotten sick and tested positive for coronavirus. And they asked him,

who did you interact with while you were at CPAC? And he mentioned one senator,

me. And so the CPAC organizers described this to me. And I remembered, I saw this gentleman

backstage outside the green room and we said hello and I shook his hand. The whole interaction

was probably less than 60 seconds. It was just good to see you, shook his

hand. We may have taken a selfie. And that was it. So anyway, CPAC tells me, well, this individual,

unfortunately, is now sick and he's tested positive. So I sat down and made a whole series of phone

calls. And I reached out to health professionals, reached out to CDC,

reached out to health and human services, reached out to the health director of the city of

Houston and of Harris County, and asked all of them, all right, what should I do? What is the

proper conduct in this circumstance? What the doctors told me is that given the very brief interaction,

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